Round-Up: State health care exchange is the focus of repeal; Cotter Corp. deal struck; and more

Two GOP state lawmakers are seeking to repeal the state’s health care exchange, set up last year with the support of some top Republicans…The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says an agreement has been reached with Cotter Corp…Pueblo authorities evacuated several downtown buildings this afternoon after a woman brought three sticks of dynamite to the police for disposal…and, the federal Bureau of Land Management is hoping to expand the National Natural Landmark designation to protect more fossils in the Garden Park Fossil Area near Canon City.

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March 3, 2015 | NPR · T. Geronimo Johnson’s latest follows four Berkeley students who take an American history class that leads to disaster. It’s an ambitious book about race that wants to say something big about America.

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March 3, 2015 | NPR · As part of our stories about Muslims in Western Europe, commentator Hisham Aidi, author of the book Rebel Music, talks about how music factors into the cultural differences between French Muslims.

March 3, 2015 | NPR · Dom La Nena is a singer and cellist from Brazil. But the 24-year-old artist draws inspiration from her travels around the world and sings in four different languages on her sophomore album, Soyo.